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Venue of Actions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 1
A transitory action shall, except as otherwise provided, if any one of the parties thereto lives in the commonwealth, be brought in the county where...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; district courts - Chapter 223, Section 2
Except as provided in section twenty-one of chapter two hundred and eighteen, a transitory action in a district court shall be brought in a court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction - Chapter 223, Section 2A
Whenever cross actions between the same parties or two or more actions, including for the purposes hereof other court proceedings and actions transferred under section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court - Chapter 223, Section 2B
Whenever cross actions between the same parties or two or more actions, including for the purposes hereof other court proceedings, arising out of or connected...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer - Chapter 223, Section 2C
Whenever any action or proceeding is transferred to another court under any provision of section two A or section two B, such action or proceeding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; enumeration - Chapter 223, Section 3
Every action for rent, use and occupation or breach of covenant shall be considered a transitory action.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Replevin actions - Chapter 223, Section 4
An action brought pursuant to chapter two hundred and forty-seven shall be brought in the county where the goods or beasts are detained.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions by the commonwealth - Chapter 223, Section 5
A civil action in which the commonwealth is plaintiff or in which money due to the commonwealth is sought to be recovered may be brought...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Counties; actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 6
A local or transitory action by a county shall be brought in the county where the defendant lives or in a county adjoining the plaintiff...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions - Chapter 223, Section 7
An action against a town or person to recover for injury or damage received by reason of a defect, want of repair or of an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations; actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 8
Transitory actions, except those mentioned in the preceding section, to which a corporation, other than a county or the city of Boston, is a party,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers - Chapter 223, Section 8A
Transitory actions by or against the subscribers to a reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange defined in section ninety-four A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions by or against city of Boston - Chapter 223, Section 9
An action by or against the city of Boston, except actions mentioned in section seven and actions by the collector of said city under sections...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk - Chapter 223, Section 10
The defendant in an action brought in Suffolk county by the city of Boston or by its collector may, if the action is brought in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 11
A transitory action by or against an executor or administrator may be brought in a county in which it might have been brought by or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land title actions - Chapter 223, Section 12
If a tract of land lies in two or more counties, an action relative to it, to which neither a county, the city of Boston...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Change of venue - Chapter 223, Section 13
If the supreme judicial or superior court finds that a party to an action or proceeding pending therein cannot, by reason of local prejudice or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeitures - Chapter 223, Section 14
A civil action for the recovery of a forfeiture, except an action in which the commonwealth is plaintiff, or in which money is sought to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erroneous venue; procedure - Chapter 223, Section 15
If an error in venue is discovered at any stage of the proceedings of a civil action in the supreme judicial or superior court, the...
Forms, Issuing and Return of Writs.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24 - Chapter 223, Section 16-18
Chapter 223: Section 16 to 18. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process; unknown defendant; procedure - Chapter 223, Section 19
In a civil action if the name of the defendant is not known to the plaintiff, the defendant may be designated in the summons and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86 - Chapter 223, Section 19A
Chapter 223: Section 19A. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process; issuance - Chapter 223, Section 20
Process in the supreme judicial and superior court shall be signed, and may be issued, by the clerk, shall bear teste of the first justice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 22. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87 - Chapter 223, Section 21
Chapter 223: Section 21, 22. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26 - Chapter 223, Section 23
Chapter 223: Section 23. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87 - Chapter 223, Section 24
Chapter 223: Section 24. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26 - Chapter 223, Section 25
Chapter 223: Section 25. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
Service on Defendant.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26 - Chapter 223, Section 26-30
Chapter 223: Section 26 to 30. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summons; leaving at last known address, etc - Chapter 223, Section 31
In an action brought in the district court, if service is made at the last and usual place of abode, the officer making service shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting - Chapter 223, Section 31A
Personal service of a writ or summons upon a defendant while he is exercising his right to vote shall be null and void.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28 - Chapter 223, Section 32
Chapter 223: Section 32. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91 - Chapter 223, Section 33
Chapter 223: Section 33. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91
- Massachusetts General Laws - Further notice to absent defendant - Chapter 223, Section 34
If the defendant is out of the commonwealth, or if his residence is not known to the officer, and no personal service is made on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return - Chapter 223, Section 35
When process is served by an officer by leaving copies of the summons, subpoena, or summons and complaint at the last and usual place of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28 - Chapter 223, Section 36
Chapter 223: Section 36. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations; persons authorized to be served - Chapter 223, Section 37
In an action against a county, city, town, parish or religious society, or against the proprietors of wharves, general fields or real estate lying in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign corporations - Chapter 223, Section 38
In an action against a foreign corporation, except an insurance company, which has a usual place of business in the commonwealth, or with or without...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign insurance company; manner of service - Chapter 223, Section 39
In an action against a foreign insurance company transacting business in this commonwealth, service may be made upon an agent of the company, licensed as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable - Chapter 223, Section 39A
In an action against insurance companies severally liable upon a policy of insurance issued under section one hundred and two A, one hundred and eleven...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers - Chapter 223, Section 39B
In an action against the subscribers of a reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange defined in section ninety-four A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and authorized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Voluntary associations, service on - Chapter 223, Section 40
In an action against a voluntary association or trust described in section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-two, engaged in business in the commonwealth,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93 - Chapter 223, Section 41
Chapter 223: Section 41. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93
Attachment of Property -- General Provisions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property subject to attachment - Chapter 223, Section 42
All real and personal property liable to be taken on execution, except such personal property as, from its nature or situation, has been considered as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment - Chapter 223, Section 42A
In an action or suit for an amount which is liquidated or ascertainable by calculation, no attachment by trustee process or otherwise shall be made...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cars and vessels; attachment - Chapter 223, Section 43
Railroad cars and engines and street railway cars, in use and making regular passages on railroads or railways, and steamboats so in use upon water...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ships or vessels; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 44
No ship or vessel shall be attached in a civil action unless the plaintiff or a person on his behalf makes affidavit and proves to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 44A
Motor vehicles registered under the law of this commonwealth and not exempt from execution under clause Sixteenth of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property of newspaper offices - Chapter 223, Section 45
The press, type, stands, cases, paper and other personal property used in printing and publishing newspapers shall not, within forty-eight hours previous to the issue...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; powers to require security - Chapter 223, Section 45A
If there is reasonable doubt as to the ownership of personal property or as to its liability to be attached on mesne process, before or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33 - Chapter 223, Section 46
Chapter 223: Section 46. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33
- Massachusetts General Laws - Successive attachments on different writs - Chapter 223, Section 47
Personal property which has been attached or taken on execution by a constable may be further attached or taken on execution by a deputy sheriff...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Keeper; appointment; costs - Chapter 223, Section 48
An officer directed to make an attachment of personal property may, if the writ bears an endorsement signed by a justice, associate justice or special...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attached personalty; keeping on owner's premises - Chapter 223, Section 49
Personal property which has been attached may, subject to the preceding section, be kept on the premises where it is found, unless the owner or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bulky goods - Chapter 223, Section 50
If an attachment is made of articles of personal property which, by reason of their bulk or for other cause, cannot be immediately removed, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerk's fees - Chapter 223, Section 51
Chapter 223: Section 51. Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec. 44
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale - Chapter 223, Section 52
If personal property has been sold or disposed of by consent of the parties, or after an appraisal as hereinafter provided, the proceeds, while remaining...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Further attachment of replevied property - Chapter 223, Section 53
Property which has been replevied from an officer who has attached it shall be considered as remaining in his custody and control so as to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value - Chapter 223, Section 54
If there is judgment for a return of the property so replevied, the plaintiff in replevin and his sureties shall be liable for the whole...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death or removal of first attaching officer - Chapter 223, Section 55
If an officer dies or is removed from office while an attachment which he has made remains in force, the attached property, whether replevied or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment - Chapter 223, Section 56
The officer who makes such later attachment shall not take the property itself, but he shall make proof of service of the writ of attachment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Replevied property; mode of attaching - Chapter 223, Section 57
Property which has been replevied from an attaching officer shall not be further attached as the property of the original defendant in any manner other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment - Chapter 223, Section 58
Property which has been attached by an officer, whether in his custody at his death or taken from him by replevin or otherwise, and also...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duration of attachment after judgment - Chapter 223, Section 59
Upon judgment for the plaintiff in a civil action, property which has been attached in connection with said action shall remain subject to attachment for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 61. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103 - Chapter 223, Section 60
Chapter 223: Section 60, 61. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103
Attachment of Real Estate and Leaseholds.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of real estate; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 62
In attaching land, or a right or interest therein, the officer need not enter upon the land or be within view of it. In attaching...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds - Chapter 223, Section 63
No attachment of land or of any leasehold estate shall be valid against a subsequent attaching creditor, or against a subsequent purchaser in good faith...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; duty - Chapter 223, Section 64
The officer who makes such attachment shall deposit such copy in the registry of deeds.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; duty; fees - Chapter 223, Section 65
The register of deeds shall note on such copy the day, hour and minute of its receipt, and shall record it in his office. He...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment; time of taking effect - Chapter 223, Section 66
If the copy of the writ is deposited, as aforesaid, within three days after the day when the attachment was made the attachment shall take...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 67
If an attachment on mesne process is made of land, or of a right or interest therein, which has been fraudulently conveyed by the debtor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register - Chapter 223, Section 68
The register in such case, in addition to the names of the parties to the action which he is required to enter as provided in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers - Chapter 223, Section 69
Registers of deeds shall perform the same duties relative to the filing and entering of copies of writs and other papers in actions commenced in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbered realty - Chapter 223, Section 70
An attachment of land which is subject to a mortgage or other encumbrance shall, if the mortgage is redeemed or the encumbrance is removed before...
Attachment of Shares of Stock.
Attachment of Property in Possession of Bailee.
Attachment of Encumbered Personalty.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of personalty mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract - Chapter 223, Section 74
Personal property of a debtor which is subject to a mortgage, pledge or lien, and of which he has the right of redemption, or personal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account - Chapter 223, Section 75
Within a reasonable time after such property has been attached, or, in the case of property subject to a recorded mortgage or covered by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excessive demands; penalty - Chapter 223, Section 76
If the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, demands and receives more than the amount due to him, he shall be liable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors - Chapter 223, Section 77
If property which has been attached and redeemed by the attaching creditor, as aforesaid, is sold on mesne process or on execution, the proceeds thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price - Chapter 223, Section 78
If the attaching creditor, after having redeemed the property, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the debtor repays to him...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination - Chapter 223, Section 79
Personal property upon which a mortgage or lien is claimed, or which is claimed to have been sold under a contract of conditional sale reserving...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amount due; determination - Chapter 223, Section 80
If, upon such examination, or, upon the verdict of a jury as provided in section eighty-one, it appears that the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Validity of mortgage; determination - Chapter 223, Section 81
If the attaching creditor denies the validity of the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale, and moves that its validity be tried by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creditor to retain amount paid by him - Chapter 223, Section 82
When the creditor has paid to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, the amount ordered by the court, he may retain...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment. - Chapter 223, Section 83
If the attaching creditor, after having paid the amount ordered by the court, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of secs. 74—83 - Chapter 223, Section 83A
Sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to security interests in personal property which are recordable under section nine—four hundred and one (1)(b) of...
Supplementary Process.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service - Chapter 223, Section 84
If in a civil action the defendant makes a motion to dismiss the action for insufficient service of process, the court may dismiss the action...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 86. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37 - Chapter 223, Section 85
Chapter 223: Section 85, 86. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37
- Massachusetts General Laws - Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment - Chapter 223, Section 86A
Upon motion of the plaintiff at any time after entry of a judgment in his favor in the supreme judicial court, superior court, housing court...
Sale of Personal Property Attached.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of personal property attached; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 87
Personal property which has been attached on one or more writs may, if the debtor and all the attaching creditors consent in writing, subject to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; appraisal and sale - Chapter 223, Section 88
If an attachment is made of animals or of goods which are liable to perish, waste or greatly decrease in value by keeping, or which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings - Chapter 223, Section 89
Upon such application, the attaching officer shall give notice to all the other parties or their attorneys, prepare a schedule of the goods and cause...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Absent defendant; notice - Chapter 223, Section 90
If the defendant is not within the commonwealth and has no attorney therein, the notice in writing shall be left at his last and usual...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appraisers; manner of appointment - Chapter 223, Section 91
One appraiser shall be appointed by the creditor or creditors in the several actions, one by the debtor or debtors, and one by the officer;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; sale after appraisal - Chapter 223, Section 92
The appraisers shall examine the attached property and, if in their opinion it, or a part thereof, is liable to perish or waste or to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition - Chapter 223, Section 93
The property so appraised shall, if he requires it, be delivered to the debtor upon his depositing with the attaching officer the appraised value thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; duty to return with writs - Chapter 223, Section 94
The officer who takes such bond shall return it with the writ on which the first attachment is made in like manner as bail bonds...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors - Chapter 223, Section 95
If judgment is rendered for the defendants in an action on such bond, executions for the costs shall be issued against the attaching creditors by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111 - Chapter 223, Section 96
Chapter 223: Section 96. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; distribution of money by court - Chapter 223, Section 97
The court may, upon a hearing, determine the rights of the several attaching creditors and award a separate execution for the amount due or payable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; protection of prior attachments - Chapter 223, Section 98
No judgment or execution shall be awarded for the use of a creditor without reserving as much as may be due upon any prior attachment,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; right of creditor not joining - Chapter 223, Section 99
A creditor who is entitled to the benefit of the bond, and who has not joined in bringing the action thereon may, upon motion at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; limitation - Chapter 223, Section 100
No creditor whose cause of action on such bond accrued more than one year before the commencement of the action shall have judgment or execution.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creditors; payment and satisfaction - Chapter 223, Section 101
If property which has been sold, or appraised and delivered to the debtor, in the manner before provided is attached by several creditors, any one...
Attachment of Share of Joint Owner of Personalty.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of share of joint owner of personalty; appraisal at request of part owner - Chapter 223, Section 102
If personal property of two or more part owners is attached in an action against one or more of them, it shall, upon the request...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 103
The property so appraised shall be delivered to the part owner at whose request it was appraised, upon his giving bond to the attaching officer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pledge of property - Chapter 223, Section 104
If such appraised value or any part thereof is so paid, the defendant’s share of the property shall thereby become pledged to the party to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration - Chapter 223, Section 105
If the attachment is dissolved, the party to whom the defendant’s share was delivered shall restore it to the defendant, or to the officer, to...
Fraudulent Attachments.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment: application - Chapter 223, Section 106
If real or personal property has been attached in an action, any person, other than the parties, who claims title or interest therein by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Affidavit and bond - Chapter 223, Section 107
The petitioner, or a person in his behalf, shall make oath that his claim is just and legal and that all the other facts stated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court - Chapter 223, Section 108
If the court finds that a part of the amount demanded in the prior action is not justly due, or was not payable when the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings - Chapter 223, Section 109
The proceedings between the adverse claimants or plaintiffs shall not be affected by any pleading or other act of the defendant in the prior action...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; defences - Chapter 223, Section 110
No attachment shall be dissolved as aforesaid by reason of a defence to the action which is founded on the laws for the limitation of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs; damages - Chapter 223, Section 111
The court may, upon such inquiry, award to either party reasonable costs and, if the prior attachment is maintained, may award to the attaching creditor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeding upon appeal - Chapter 223, Section 112
If, during the pendency of the proceedings, the action in which the attachment was made is transferred to another court, the inquiry concerning the attachment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment; force and effect - Chapter 223, Section 113
The judgment of the court upon such an inquiry, whether the attachment is thereby vacated or held to be valid and effectual, shall be a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments - Chapter 223, Section 113A
Attachments in all cases in law, equity or probate courts of the commonwealth shall be dissolved, discharged or reduced in whole or in part without...
Reduction or Discharge of Attachment.
Dissolution of Attachment.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment dissolving attachment - Chapter 223, Section 115
If the judgment in a civil action is for the defendant, the attachment shall be dissolved upon the exhaustion of all possible appellate review of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of service upon defendant - Chapter 223, Section 115A
If real property of the defendant is attached in any action and no service is made upon him, the attachment shall be dissolved unless it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40 - Chapter 223, Section 115B
Chapter 223: Section 115B. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of defendant - Chapter 223, Section 116
An attachment of real or personal property shall be dissolved if the debtor dies before it is taken or seized on execution and administration of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds - Chapter 223, Section 117
If the officer has, before such demand, sold on execution the personal property attached or a right of redeeming land attached as aforesaid, he shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him - Chapter 223, Section 118
If the officer in such case has, before such demand, paid over the proceeds of the sale to the judgment creditor, he shall not be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Counterclaim - Chapter 223, Section 119
The defendant, in an action founded on either of the three preceding sections, shall not be allowed to counter-claim for a demand against the executor...
by Giving Bond.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by bond; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 120
A defendant whose property has been attached in a civil action may at any time dissolve the attachment by giving a bond with sufficient sureties,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; hearing before approval - Chapter 223, Section 121
Before such bond is approved, the defendant, or a person in his behalf, shall make application in writing to the magistrate, specifying therein the names...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Debtor's fees and costs - Chapter 223, Section 122
If the attachment is dissolved and the defendant prevails, his costs shall include the fees of the magistrate and the premium or premiums paid for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Debtor's bond; filing - Chapter 223, Section 123
Such bond and the bond required by section one hundred and twenty-seven shall be filed by the defendant with the clerk of the court to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release of sureties of insolvent debtor - Chapter 223, Section 124
If, within four months after an attachment of property has been made on mesne process in a civil action founded on a claim which would,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond to pay value of property - Chapter 223, Section 125
A defendant may, at any time before execution, issue upon a judgment, release from attachment the property attached, or such part thereof as he may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 223, Section 126
The magistrate may adjourn such hearing from time to time. He shall determine the fees of the appraisers. The applicant shall pay the fees of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty - Chapter 223, Section 127
If an attachment of real property is made under sections sixty-seven and sixty-eight, the person in whose name the record title of the property attached...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit - Chapter 223, Section 128
A defendant may dissolve an attachment by depositing with the attaching officer an amount of money equal at least to the amount of the attachment,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Individual property of one defendant - Chapter 223, Section 129
A defendant whose individual property has been attached in an action against several defendants may dissolve such attachment, or any part thereof, in any of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property - Chapter 223, Section 129A
The officer shall not be liable for the release of personal property attached by him if he receives a certificate from the clerk of the...
by Appointment of Receiver.
by Entry or Release in Registry of Deeds.
Execution of Bonds.
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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